Kigogwa fuel tanker explosion left a 17-year old widow

In our community engagements with the affected families of Kigogwa fuel tanker incident, we bring you the mother of one Ms Naggayi who’s only 17yrs old and with a baby of 2 months old. Her husband was a mechanic and sometimes would ride a motorcycle to look for work. That fateful day, the late Kizza told his wife Naggayi that he’s going to look for work using a friend’s boda boda, on the way he got a customer who sent him to the Kigogwa hardware to pick cement. He reached Kigogwa trading center when the fuel tanker had already overturned. The late Kizza parked the motorcycle across the road. Went to the hardware which is a few steps away from where the fuel tanker was, to pick cement his customer had sent him for. He got it and in the process of crossing the road, the tanker exploded and fire got him in the middle of the road. According to the survivors, the fire magnetically pulled Kizza back to the tank, he got burnt. When police arrived, Kizza’s heart was still beating and was rushed to Bombo Army hospital where he died from. Kizza’s wife had a hard time of telling this story, she’s still traumatized and the fact that she’s under age with little baby. She has no job, her mother has no job too, the family is living in dire poverty and with Naggayi’s siblings being young because she’s the first born to her mother. The person who had been taking care of them is gone, they are looking for justice.

As FHU we amplify voices of affected communities, women, marginalized groups. We demand justice, compensation and accountability for the Kigogwa affected communities.

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